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Re: missing fix-info-dir in dist tar balll; RFE: integrate fix-info-dir


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: missing fix-info-dir in dist tar balll; RFE: integrate fix-info-dir script into info binary
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 09:38:17 +0200

> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:22:37 +0000
> Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> 
> The script was under contrib/fix-info-dir.  The whole contrib/ directory
> was excluded from the tar ball.
> 
> Which distributions use the script and when/how is it run?
> 
> The script appears to have hardly any attention paid to it since
> it was written (the copyright year in the version message is still
> printed as 1998!).
> 
> I think it's unlikely that we could immediately add the functionality
> to the info binary and the more immediate change would be distribute
> the script.

AFAIU, the script's effect is equivalent to deleting the existing DIR
file and then running install-info on all the files in that directory
to recreate DIR.  Am I missing something?



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